The Panathenaic Stadium (also known as Kallimarmaro) will host the highly anticipated Dior fashion show,…
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With no crowd, Olympiacos celebrated its second consecutive league title, the team’s 46th Greek title,…
Fans of the Greek football team Olympiakos forced their way into the grounds of the…
The flags of Greece and the European Union were raised at the Acropolis on Sunday…
The new lighting of the Acropolis in Athens won three important accolades at the 2020…
Greece’s Ministry of Culture announced the opening hours for archaeological sites in Greece over the Orthodox…
It’s Sunday, April 27, 1941. A military procession, consisting of two motorcycles, a Kubelwagen and…
Six iconic images feature on the 2021 Anzac biscuit commemorative tins. The tins – which…
Hundreds of citizens flocked to the Acropolis on Sunday for World Heritage Day. On this day…
Last year, a concrete path was created for wheelchair users, elderly citizens and others with…
Between 8.30pm and 9.30pm on Saturday, several landmarks across Greece turned off their lights, participating…
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hailed the return of the “epic” Acropolis Rally of Greece at a time when “Greece is finding its way.”
“I want the Greek DNA showcased in this exhibition to trigger pride, acknowledgement and a respect for the modern world’s roots.” Melbourne leg of Nick Bourdaniotis’ “The Evzones Collection” photography exhibition national tour a resounding success.
To experience ‘The Evzones Collection’ Exhibition is to fall in love with the strength, solidarity and mystique that is the Evzones. And with the spiritual, brilliant, creative, artistic, shining light of a legend that is world class photographer, Nick Bourdaniotis. We speak to Nick about his life’s passion of photography, his creative processes, and what inspires him, to find out more about what goes on inside the genius mind of the man behind the lens.
In the presence of President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the official Greek…
The atmosphere and experience on the morning of March 25 at the Acropolis, the Holy…
The Acropolis reopened on Monday for visitors after all archeological sites were closed for many…
George Clooney repeats his claim that the Parthenon sculptures should be returned to Athens. This comes despite the fact that in 2014 when he said that returning them was “the right thing to do”, Boris Johnson compared him to Hitler. Last December Clooney admitted in an interview that the comparison: “still makes me laugh. Bit of a stretch.”
The European Parliament will honour the late, great WWII resistance hero Manolis Glezos by naming…
The celebrated Greek statesman Pericles is credited with ordering the design and construction of the Parthenon between 447 and 432 BC as a temple for Athena—the goddess of wisdom, arts and literature and war. Still dominating the modern city of Athens, the Parthenon is a magnificent testimony to the glory and renown the city enjoyed throughout antiquity. Pericles had made no idle boast then when he emphatically stated that ‘…we shall be the marvel of the present day and of ages yet to come.